What was Peter claiming would never happen? What does death represent from a secular point of view? What does it represent from a heavenly point of view? Does wanting to avoid death necessarily indicate a lack of faith? Why or why not? How does denying ourselves and following Jesus impact our own POV and our decisions? These are just some of the questions to consider in this week’s edition of the Walking Talking Bible Project.
Bible Passages
The following Scripture quotations from The Berean Standard Bible (BSB) are provided for your convenience. Please feel free to use the Bible and translation of your choice.
Memory Passage: Matthew 16:24
Matthew 16:24
24 Then Jesus told His disciples, “If anyone wants to come after Me, he must deny himself and take up his cross and follow Me.
Connection Passage #1: Matthew 16:22–23
Matthew 16:22–23
22 Peter took Him aside and began to rebuke Him. “Far be it from You, Lord!” he said. “This shall never happen to You!”
23 But Jesus turned and said to Peter, “Get behind Me, Satan! You are a stumbling block to Me. For you do not have in mind the things of God, but the things of men.”
Connection Passage #2 Numbers 32:9–13
Numbers 32:9–13
9 For when your fathers went up to the Valley of Eshcol and saw the land, they discouraged the Israelites from entering the land that the LORD had given them.
10 So the anger of the LORD was kindled that day, and He swore an oath, saying,
11 ‘Because they did not follow Me wholeheartedly, not one of the men twenty years of age or older who came out of Egypt will see the land that I swore to give Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob—
12 not one except Caleb son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite and Joshua son of Nun—because they did follow the LORD wholeheartedly.’
13 The anger of the LORD burned against Israel, and He made them wander in the wilderness forty years, until the whole generation who had done evil in His sight was gone.
Connection Passage #3: Jeremiah 7:23–24
Jeremiah 7:23–24
23 but this is what I commanded them: Obey Me, and I will be your God, and you will be My people. You must walk in all the ways I have commanded you, so that it may go well with you.
24 Yet they did not listen or incline their ear, but they followed the stubborn inclinations of their own evil hearts. They went backward and not forward.
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All Scripture quotations, unless otherwise indicated, are taken from The Berean Standard Bible (BSB).